Sedona Conference Webinar on Safeguarding Client and Third Party Confidential ESI

When	Monday, July 27, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location	Room 300
For	Faculty; Staff; Students
Cost	Free

Come join us for a free broadcast of this Sedona Conference Webinar. Bring your own lunch. Working Group 1 of The Sedona Conference, the Working Group responsible for The Sedona Principles and other leading commentaries on the preservation, management, and production of ESI in civil litigation, has released for public comment a new Commentary that addresses the evolving responsibilities that lawyers, law firms, and other legal service providers have to provide security for their own, their clients’, and third parties’ private and confidential information. The legal profession relies on communications technology and the rapid, secure sharing of information to conduct business. The creation and use of electronic information has dramatically changed the legal services industry. Unfortunately, the new technologies that have transformed the industry also threaten privacy, information security, and even the confidentiality of attorney-client communications in ways that were unimaginable a few years ago. Ethical rules, statutes, regulations, and the common law all impose duties on lawyers -- and indirectly on much of the legal services industry -- to safeguard private and confidential information belonging to clients and third parties. This Commentary confronts these challenges, providing a framework for addressing information privacy and security concerns in the legal industry and recommending steps that all members of the industry should consider to safeguard the private and confidential information they maintain on behalf of their clients, third parties, and their own organization. The Commentary is open for public comment through August 30, 2015. A panel of experts drawn from the Commentary’s drafting team will present an overview of the Commentary and its recommendations, explain the legal and professional responsibility considerations behind it, and take your questions and comments live in this 90-minute webinar. Topics covered in the webinar: • Background to Commentary On Privacy • Principles 1 and 2: Reasonable Measures to Protect Privacy; Knowledge of Applicable Statutes, Regulations, and Contractual Obligations • Principles 3, 4, and 5: Conducting Risk Analysis; Establishing Policies, Procedures, and Accountability • Principles 6 and 7: Training and Monitoring • Principle 8: Continuous Policy and Procedure Assessment; Summary Moderated by: Kenneth Withers, The Sedona Conference, Phoenix, AZ Panelists: • Tara Emory | Driven, Inc., Falls Church, VA • Jenny Lewis | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY • Jeffrey McKenna | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA • James A. Sherer | BakerHostetler LLP, New York, NY • David C. Shonka | Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC A free copy of the draft commentary can be downloaded here: https://thesedonaconference.org/publication/sedona-conference-commentary-privacy-and-information-securitypublic-comment-version?

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Contact	Valerie Schlecht valerie.schlecht@colorado.edu
Website	https://thesedonaconference.org/conference/2015/webinar-tsc-commentary-privacy-and-information-security